Comments on: Listen to you hard drive’s S.M.A.R.T. status - part 2 http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/ News and views from the geek tie guy. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:22:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: GeekTieGuy http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12742 GeekTieGuy Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:39:23 +0000 http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/#comment-12742 Glad to be able to help! Glad to be able to help!

]]> By: Ran http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-12739 Ran Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:31:22 +0000 http://www.geektieguy.com/2008/09/09/listen-to-you-hard-drives-smart-status-part-2/#comment-12739 Thanks for the tip on HDTune and the event log. A friend who's computer I recently worked on suddenly begin having issues yesterday with running very slow and displaying 'missing file' messages. Sure enough, a check of the event log revealed a slew of the following messages: ' The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D. has a bad block' guess it's time to get a new hard drive...... Thanks for the tip on HDTune and the event log.

A friend who’s computer I recently worked on suddenly begin having issues yesterday with running very slow and displaying ‘missing file’ messages.

Sure enough, a check of the event log revealed a slew of the following messages:

‘ The device, \Device\Harddisk0\D. has a bad block’

guess it’s time to get a new hard drive……

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